From: Russ Dill <Russ.Dill@asu.edu>
To: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Cc: David Woodhouse <postmaster@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: List etiquette.
Date: 23 Apr 2003 13:51:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1051131065.1476.88.camel@russ.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030423204037.GB26678@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 13:40, Jörn Engel wrote:
> On Wed, 23 April 2003 10:15:56 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> >
> > Please ensure that you do not try to start a new thread
> > by just replying to an existing list message and changing the subject,
> > for similar reasons.
>
> Why exactly? I kind of like the habit of changing the subject in the
> middle of a thread where appropriate, like "foo (was: bar)".
He doesn't mean a topic change like, "There is a bug in tool foo blah
blah blah" "I like that tool, but I use tool bar blah blah blah" "(New
subject) did you know how to do x in tool bar?"
He means "I have an oops when I use foo with bar" "(reply) Where can I
find the latest CVS snapshot?"
Lazy people, not sensible topic shifting
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-23 20:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-23 9:15 List etiquette David Woodhouse
2003-04-23 9:40 ` David Woodhouse
2003-04-23 20:40 ` Jörn Engel
2003-04-23 20:51 ` Russ Dill [this message]
2003-04-23 21:05 ` Jörn Engel
2003-04-24 14:47 ` Grant Edwards
2003-04-24 15:20 ` Jörn Engel
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